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Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

famous thirty thousand-dollar Mutt,
she receiving a thousand dollars week,
which is here reproduced, from which
the ladies will see that bustles and hoop
skirts were all the rage years and years
ago.
And the first thing that caught my at
tention was the picture of a woman, with
long hair sweeping the ground, precisely
like those of a totally different indiyid-
ual which disfigures the papers of to-day.
Is there nothing new?
No, apparently not.
Here are the patent sleeve buttons,
the new medical discoveries, the umbrel-
las, the hair invigorators, the theatres,
the property remains, but the proprietors
long since went their several ways.
Condolences are queer.
They are also instructive. Ninety-nine
in every hundred people you meet mean
nothing, amount to nothing, but the hun
dredth (who may also be the first) l.
packed with thought, haloed with senti-
ment, and II carefully noted and properly
utilized may have a bearing on your ever
lasting future.
And don't you forget Il.
HOWARD.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
The Rat Was Hungry.

Recently David Leonard, of Rockaway, N.
j.. while fishing in the Rockaway river felt a
tug at his worm-baited line, and for a mo-
ment thought that he had hooked ten
pound trout On investigation he found that
his hook was fastened i'm the upper jaw of a
muskrat Dave was alone, and he lost the
animal through haste. A day or two after
hewas wading the stream again in the same
spot, and saw a rat dive in from the bank.
Calling toa companion, he hastily baited his
hook with big bunch of worms and
dropped it where the muskrat had disap-
peared. The bait was almost instantly taken,
and, after waiting five seconds, Dave struck
home and hooked the rat deep in the mouth.
Heading him up stream, he played him very
the bank crept me and Killed the rat with V
club. On examining the animals mouth
Dave found that it was the same rat that had
escaped from his hook the previous week.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
The Franco-German Frontier.

The frontier line between France and Ger
many is so arranged that it crosses every
a post, twelve feet high, painted like bar
bars pole-red, black, and white-with a
crosspiece at the top, bearing the word in
Slack letters on white ground, CREME (bound-
ary), with an exclamation mark. Diasonally
oppositeis cast-iron post, twelve feet high.
whereon is painted in gray on an iron cross
piece the word frontiere. Such posts are
placed only on roads and railways. The
line is indicated "across country" by stone
blocks projecting about foot above the
ground, at intervals of fifty yards. On the
French side of the block is cut with chisel
the letter "F;" on the German side is the
letter 3D." for Deutschland.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
SIGNALING PICTURES.
A Process That Might BE Employed to
Catch Fugitive Criminals.

A Process That Might BE Employed to
Catch Fugitive Criminals.
From time to time, suggestions have been
made that the development Of electrical
science may eventually enable diagrams,
and even pictures, to be sent by telegraph,
and it has been even announced that such
results have been obtained in experiments,
although not reduced to process for prac-
teal use. 1t now appears, however, that in
connection with the extensive military
maneuvres carried on by European nations
a system of signaling has been worked out
by means of which maps and even pictures
of faces can be transmitted by any of the
ordinary methods of army signaling, even by
so simple process as the waving of signal
flags. The principle of the system is the
indication of points and lines by means of
letters. The accompanying diagram gives
the key of the process:
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
MORAL VERSES FOR CHILDREN.

The ostrich Is foolish bird
That lives on sandy plains,
He's noted for his feathers, but
He's not renowned for brains.
For when the willy hunters come
TO make Of him their prey,
He spreads his wings and swiftly runs
A mile or 50 away.
Till finding that he's close pursued
by all che cruel band,
lie stops and hides his foolish head
Among the brush and sand.
The rest of him, Of course, meanwhile,
Is all exposed 10 view;
And he gets caught. Think that he
Is very dull-Don't you?
MORAL.
Now, children dear, this lesson learn,
You'll find Il worth your pains;
Fine feathers always make fine birds,
But they can't compare with brains.
Louisville Journal.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
An Arfisf,s Palace.
HOWARD.

Gerome, the celebrated French painter,
lives in magnificent palace i'm Paris. The
spacious halls Of the ground floor are encum-
bercd with curios Of all kinds, from Chinese
beds in carved wood down TO Australian
knuckle busters. The staircase is lined with
rare exotic plants. The atelier is q perfect
oriental dream. Here and there are weird
Chineseand Japanesegods, arabesque bronzes,
swords and shields from Asia and Africa, and
precious warlike relics Of the Middle Ages.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
A Genius for Stimulation.

First Omaha Man-So the youth who
proved such a wonderful actor at the ANA
teur performance last night was your SON |?
Second Omaha Man-Yes; he has a
genius for stimulation.
ats marvellous. Although he played
the villain Of the piece, he so worked on our
sympathies that the audience was mad
enough 10 lynch all the balance of the COM
pany when his schemes were defeated in the
last act. suppose he will make a great
actor some day p'
"No; / intend to make alawyer of him.
Omaha World.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
PATHS FAREWELL in 1860.

Il is very uncharitably recalled by a Wash
ington paper that Patti gave a farewell
concert at the capital March 81, 1860. The
affair took place in Willard's Hall and the
diva was assisted by Strakosch, Brignoli,
Susini and Amodio. Seats cost SPA vul-
CARLY old.fashioned price. Among those who
invited Patti 10 go 10 Washington at that time
was Vice President breckenridge. Of the
senators who were present at the perform
ance hardly one survives.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
IT h atre, In
Washington,into

GNtEltotllk HUlOElttYs tttl
of his playing In the Bos-
ton Museum. At that writing he was
playing In o St. Louis theatre, where he
was succeeded by Matilda Heron, dead,
he coming TO Boston, where he was
great and deserved favorite.
Boucicault began here a week or so
ago an extremely unsuccessful en-
gagement in the Star Theatre--so thor
oughly unsuccessful indeed as 10 suggest
his closing of the theatre. | saw
him the day before with his hat, as usual,
far upon che back and far upon the front
of his head, wearing long gray ulster, and
attended by his beautiful and spirited
bride, Of probably one.third his years,
and In this Courier I find that Bouci.
cault had opened Astley's Theatre in Lon
dun on Christmas with play called 1.-THE
Relief of Lucknow" In the company
at that time were Mr.. and Mrs. Dion
Boucicault, Madame Celeste. Miss Rose
Leclercq, Miss Sarah Stevens, and others.
They gave also q pantomime called
LADY Bird; or, Harlequin Lord Dun
dreary," in which Boucicault offered
five shillings each for the twenty best re-
buses and half crown each for the
twenty best conundrums. Now seeing
Boucicault on the street, seeing linn on
the stage, and seeing him years, years,
years back, before the present genera
tion were born, then, as always, q popu-
lar caterer TO public entertainment, IL to
me most interesting and suggestive
text,
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
very Much Worse.

.can anything be more exaspcrating, "
complained Dumley last Sunday morning
than 20 have plenty Of money in ones
pocket and the saloons all closed up tighter
than drum"
"Oh, yes" said Robinson.
"Welf what, prayr
Saloons all open and no money in ones
pocket. "-Ncp York Sun.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
From Church to Fighting Fire.

A train set the woods afire ut Shutdown
Branch, Long Island, few days ago. The
alarm bells were rlng, and as the dense
smoke spread low through the village the
alarm became great. The ministers in the
several churches abruptly stopped the ser
vices and called on the congregations TO fight
the fire. For several hours the village was in
imminent danger, and the firemen did not
get control of the flames until about 100 acres
Of woodland had been burned.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
A boom in Conner.

. An important movement In ingot copper
has been in progress during the few days
past amounting TO between 100000 and
3O,OO0,0O0 pounds, deliverable between May
and December at ten cents per pound
the seller being the Calumet and Hecla Com.
pany.-New York Correspondence Philadelphia
Ledder. g..
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
Without A Moral.

II was clerk i'm grocery store at 80
week." he SAID, "but like many other young
men fell In with dissolute companions and
was induced to gamble"
"And was tempted 70 take money which
did not belong to your a~-
mo, won enough in week TO buy the
grocery."-New York Sun.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

ton. The cooking is of the highest order
antsosare the prices. A very simple meal of
four or five dishes costs about ten or fifteen
francs (s2 or s3), wine not included; and in
France no meal is taken without wine, even
those who do not like it taking half bottle
for the sake of appearance. Exorbitantly
high prices are charged for more elaborate
repasts. There is, for instance, restaurant
in this city the owner of which has invented
and patented, too, soup which is composed
Of costly ingredients, among which are livers
of fat chickens. To give to the latter the
right taste it is necessary they say, that the
chickens be killed by the discharge of an
electric battery. The price of this decoction
is twenty-five francs (s5) a plate.
A rather disagreeable duty imposed upon
every customers purse is the fee to the
waiter. The habit of giving this fee is so
deep rooted that but few walters receive reg
ular salary, most depending upon their share
in thereceipts for drinks, which are equally
divided among them. Restaurants of the
second and third-class give more satisfaction
than those of the first, as their meals are
quite as good and less dear. After these fol-
low the restaurants that have a fixed price
per meal. To the uninitiated these seem to
be the very ones to patronize, as they sell a
meal of four dishes, say, soup, fish, roast,
game, dessert and half bottle of wine, all
included, for II TO 2 francs, GO to 40 cents).
This certainly appears to be very cheap but
I would advise no one to bite at the lure.
The soup is greeny, greasy mixture, which
most of the customers dare not touch, to the
great satisfaction of the landlord; for the
plate is returned to the kitchen and poured
back into the kettle, to be served to the next
guest. The fish comes directly from the city
markets, it is true, but it is selected from
remnants which more liberal purchasers had
already refused to buy some days before
The roast reminds the consumer very forci.
bly, of the last accident at the horse race, as
many proud steed finds its grave in these
restaurants of fixed prices, and the wine is an
unwholesome, unpalatable counterfeit, COM
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

Paris breads streets,
the Rue de Ia Pai1,
for instance. Sud-
denly our eyes are
attracted by the
glare of a fire
burning behind
the show-window
of a shop. APP
preaching we see
it is a crate fire,
some five feet high
by four wide, in
which several bum
ches of wood are
spreading their
flames. In frontof
these half a dozen
of spits, one under
the other, are kept
burningby a clock
work. Ateachspit
several birds,
chickens, geeseand
the like are roast
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

Marshal Ballington Booth, chief Of Oh
Salvation Army, accompanied by bis wi
and Commissioner Frank Smith, Of Ne
York, have arrived in Chicago 10 participa
in the celebration of the seventh annfve
snry Of the army in America BY thu
days meeting.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14
From the Elegant Maison Doree to the Pub
lie Houses Of the Quarter MoufFetard-
Parisian Luxury and Poverty Everything
Edible Put to Its Greatest Possible Use.
[Copvrighted, 1851

crecy OF us private rooms, are
well calculated to make partaking of its
perfect repasts more than mere CASTRO
nomical enjoyment. The walters in their
short black frocks, white aprons and pat
ent-leather slippers walk noiselessly over
the thick carpets and do their service with
promptitude and politeness. The people talk
in an undertone, and, Frenchmen as they
are, cast off the cares Of business or politics
TO give themselves up, body and soul, to the
enjoyment of the repast and easy converse
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

by signal officer, who did not know who's
picture was being represented, but as soon d
Il was completed the likeness was perceivel
by all who knew Col. Bulwer. IL has beei
suggested that the likeness of an abscondinI
criminal might by this system be telegraphel
across the ocean so as to facilitate his captur
ON arrival at his destination.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

Il is time for young man to swear off
when he mistakes q lamppost for perpen-
dicular bed.
Durham daily recorder., 1887-05-14

With parting words @@ se..
of jest; ,y4k,N, SS<yS,e.
My wife! my careless MMnH3y$AHx@
little bride; saNAlSsSs Y.5 Az,
Yet see what barriers "MTtxx
frail divide 2E
Despair and happy ,4SM xNHMz
rest. GSND - d5A1
So here tonight 1 &NtzS42
come again a6SSA ~
To watch the rem 4A3Es NJ
devious; IN SAM
See, there he comes, NbyIkiA\Nv
that worst ofmen, VA4VyLI1tlilNE
And there she steals (fHW4/Usl ANVIL
adown the glen, ll%lkS>3iISlW
e. The faithless and dDnAi8N J1if(W
untrue. pEHNNv LINAMsa
And yet l may not fNu sTy@E%l
kill his grace, iVMsNZI
My hand I'm forced ESSkSlASy
to stay; fgNl<E2.N%Ti
For she, my wife, to 49, 531S ~
state the case .[S1 @s.sSY1S2
Has got the leading Ex1aEN WIN WIN
lady's place, d&ISs ~ q. ~
And to-morrow's HlSSSlS3GM
salary day! t%NNp:xNeE
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
The School ISuildine,

Considerable anxiety is expressed
throughout town as to the condition il
which the school building was left by
the storm. The writer accompanied MI
James Clark, a master builder, in an
inspection of it Tuesday morning. The
large window in the middle of the build
ing. on the third floor was carried in
also window on the northwest corner
The entire top of the building seems to
have been inflated as tight as balloon
and was moved. removing the joists
from the west wall nearly one inch. The
roof is well supported, and there is lit
tie doubt that that fact, together with
its great weight. held the top floor
against the storm. There is no percep.
tible springing of the wall but an iron
rod fastened to the girders, should be
put through the west wall, and other
needed repairs made without unnecessa
ry delay. There is no occasion for un
easiness in an ordinary storm, indeed it
would require very extraordinary one
TO lift that great roof and its girders, or
in any way endanger the building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
Yourself and NeIghbOrs.

Judge VIM Okey, of Woodsfield, was
in town Monday, in attendance at the
common pleas.
Mayor W Fl Brown, of Bellaire, was
among the visitors at the permanent
seat" on Tuesday.
Hon d A Hollings gsworth, of CadiZ
was engaged in the common pleas FRI
day.
--Tbos E McKisson. Esq, of Belmont
spent Tuesday and Wednesday in town
as the guest of Sheriff Foulke.
Harry Craft left last night for Mill
waukee, where he goes to become gen
eral manager of the Equitable Accident
Insurance Company for Wisconsin. His
family will remove there in June.-In.
dianapolis News.
Mr. Vince Lewis, of Cadiz, and Miss
Maude Baker, of Flushing, spent last
Sunday with friends here.
Mrs DR. J E West left on Monday
for months visit to her home In Jer,
sey City.
Mrs Elizabeth Kennon and daugh-
ter, Miss Lizzie. who have been sojourn-
ing at Hot Springs, Ark, for the past two
months, returned on Friday; Mrs K,who
was suffering from rheumatism, has i'm.
proved under the treatment.
THE CHRONICLE had pleasant call
from that veteran Democrat and ex-
emplary citizen, John McNiece, Esq. OF
the extreme southern part of Richland
township, yesterday.
Joseph Bell, Esq, of Wheeling tp
looked upon THE CHRONICLE yes' arday
-,aail sucked ou
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
Further Freaks of the Elements.

A very strong wind storm prevailed
last Thursday afternoon, and for an
hour or more shutters banged and glass
ratified and loose things flew around at
a rate calculated to create serious appre'
hension in the minds of timid people
Beside the breaking of glass by banging
Of shutters and the loss of one or two
shade trees, no damage was done the
property of our town. A show tent OF
Kennedy & White. pitched in the old
fair ground, below the NJ E church, suf
fered the loss of center pole, and Other
damage. At Uhrichsville cars were
blown from the track. Samuel Borofl
reports seeing man hurrying into the
culvert below. the demolished U. P
church during the storm. That chaK
didn't mean to be caught by another
tornado.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05

Mr.. JOSEPH MCCALL. residing on the
Flushing road, four miles north of Nor
ristown, met with serious accident on
Monday morning of last week. He had
mounted horse in his stable, with the
intention of riding him to water. When
about to pass out the door another horse
kicked at the one he was on. which
caused him to jump. Mr.. Mccall had
leaned forward to pass through the door
but the jumping of his horse brought
the back of his head in contact with the
top Of the door with great violence, lay
ing open tue scalp Tor four OF nv6 1ncn'
es and fracturing the skull. Mr.. Mccall
is about so years of age, e,and it is thought
tile injury will prove fatal. DR.. Hobson
of Flushing, is giving him medical and
surgical attention.
MIR Mccall died Tuesday night.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
THE June tax duplicate is In the hands
of the Treasurer

THE June tax duplicate is In the hands
of the Treasurer.
ONE hundred and two teachers were
in attendance at the Belmont County
Teachers Association in Bellaire, Satur
day.
REV. J. C. SMITH. of Bellaire, will oc
cupy the pulpit of the Methodist church
of this place, next Sunday, morning and
evening. Sth inst.
1T is stated that the work of boring
for oil and gas in the neighborhoOd OF
Smithlield and Mt Pleasant, which has
been iD progress, has been discontinued.
JUDGE MATHEW 2 DEADY. of the U
court, of the district of Oregon, who
began life in st Clairsyille. sent a remit
tance of S20,for the relief of the cyclone
sufferers.
The Dow law is producing salutary
results-Two saloons in St. Clairsville
have closed down Joseph w. King and
Horace Nichols. The council will close
the remainder by ordinance.
The Kennedy & White msstoden ten
cent show is ST Clairsville institution,
and deserves u good send+off tonight
Mr. Kennedy is an experienced manager,
and Tony is successful and Industrious
Snowman. The show is good one, and
the employees are polite and gentlemanly
men. Good luck TO them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
Legal Notice.

HTALTER WALLACE, whose residence is
wv Brownsville, in the state of PennsYlva-
mia; Mary Wallace, Portland, in the
state of Oregon, will take notice, that Daniel
G. List, trustee, on the 2Sth day of March,
1887. filed in the court of common pleas of
Belmont county, Ohio, his petition against said
parties, praying for partition or for appraise-
ment and sale of part of lots I3 and IA, in
Mather's addition to st. ClairsVille, in said
county, the same being the property owned
and occupied in their lifetime by Maria and
Dorcas Carter. The petition alleges that plain
tiff has legal right to one half, and said Mary
and Walter each to the one-fourth of said
property. Said parties are required to an
swer on or before 2Sth day of May, 1887.
33l-6t DANIEL @. LIST, Plaintiff
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
THE IMPORTED CLEVELAND BAY STALLION,
!

SIRED BY ENGLAND, the finest horse LONDON
= owner ever looked at-a horse that took four
first premiums in England when a colt; twenty-two
first in Canada after being imported there by Mr..
Fisher. He was from there brought to the Centen-
nial at Philadelphia in 1876, where he took hrst
prize medal for best coaching stallion and also at
Centennial was awarded the diploma as best stall
lon and in the state he has taken over forty trst
premiums and has taken first prize wherever ex-
hibited. LoNDoS's dam, Clara Cleveland. Is large
and beautiful mare who runs back through an an
cestry host of whose records as trotters were be
low 2s2. He is a true type of. the Cleveland Bays,
who derive their name from their beautiful color,
and the district vale of Cleveland, England, IN
which they originated. The Cleveland Bay is a
large elegant horse; 1875 hands high; weight from
1900 to 800 pounds; fne head; full, bright eyes;
long, arched neck; oblique shoulders; deep chest;
short back; long quarters; strong, cordy legs and
perfect feet full flowing name and tail; black legs
They have a strong mixture of thoroughbred blood,
with a remarkably good disposition. They are the
TERMS FOR LoNDoN-saO for insurance. Stands
at owners stable Louisville, o., from April list to
AuRust 1877.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05

EDWARD PRING, advance agent oi
the Sid G. France theatrical company
died suddenly about midnight, in the
Eclipse Club house 18th street, Wheel.
ing whence be and some friends had
gone after the play. Deceased was sit
ting at table playing dominoes when
he was seized with violent coughing
ft and began vomiting blood. and fell
to the floor dead 10 an instant after
ward. A physician who was summoned
said that death was produced from the
rupture of one of the large blood vessels
of the lungs. Deceased had wife who
resides in England. The funeral occur
red on Friday. Several of the male
members of the company, who were fill
ing an engagement in Steubenville
acted as pall-bearers. Interment at
Peninsula cemetery.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-05
Mr.. JAMES PHILLIPS died at his home,

Mr.. JAMES PHILLIPS died at his home,
near Warnock, on Saturday, and was
buried at Warncck on Monday. Mr..
Phillips was born in Loudon county,
Virginia. March 13, 1906. He was mar
ried in 1884 to daughter of Lambert
Pond. and resided for time on a farm
north of st. Clairsville. Removed to
the farm Oh which he died in 1S43. His
wife died January 8. 1912. and in 1916
he married Hannah Thornton, who died
October 21, 1876 November 25, 1880,
he married Martha T. Lash, who sur
wives him
MIR. Phillips was q man of sterling
qualities and of wide acquaintance. and
was one of the oldest and most highly
valued patrons of the CHRONICLE.